When you’re the boss, it’s really hard to get people to tell you what they really think -- to be Radically Candid with you. Showing that you want feedback and genuinely appreciate it when it’s given is key. The worst thing you can do is to criticize...
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For those of you who are familiar with our Radical Candor framework, you’ll remember that Ruinous Empathy is in the upper left. High Care Personally, low Challenge Directly. It categorizes behavior in which someone is trying to be “nice” in an...
Giving criticism is hard! Check out these tips for offering Radical Candor:
Radically Candid praise acknowledges the good work that someone has done and challenges them to do even better.
Giving feedback in person is one of the tenets of our HIP approach to Radically Candid feedback. Having real, human, in-person feedback conversations is important for two reasons:
If you think you've given praise that was Manipulatively Insincere, check out these tips for moving towards Radical Candor!
When bosses care too much about hurting their employees’ feelings, they will avoid giving criticism. Eventually, it becomes too late to fix this Ruinously Empathetic situation.
If you think you've given praise that was Ruinously Empathetic, check out these tips for moving toward Radical Candor!
Obnoxiously Aggressive criticism is often referred to as “front-stabbing”. It’s when you criticize without Caring Personally.
We've all been taught since we were kids, "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all." But now in the workplace, we need to hear when things aren't going well. We need people to tell us how we can do better, to go against...